B&CE furloughs 140 staff and changes charging structure

B&CE, the provider of The People’s Pension, has furloughed just under a quarter of its members of staff in response to pressures from the Covid-19 crisis.
The master trust provider said around 140 staff have been asked not to work, but they will kept on payroll in order to take advantage of the government's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. This will see...
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